Dive summary:

• If you own a company with heavy equipment, maybe it's no big deal to get behind the controls of a Caterpillar bulldozer or excavator, but maybe your lawyer would rather you leave that to your workers?
• If for any reason you yearn to handle the power of heavy equipment but don't have that opportunity in your life, two entrepreneurs in Minnesota have your number – specifically, numbers like 312, 315, D4K and 247C – and Caterpillar heavy equipment that you can play on in their self-described "sandbox" in Hastings.
• Extreme Sandbox offers 10 acres, a controlled environment in which tourists can climb into the cabs of Cat equipment and feel the power and a YouTube video of it all.

From the article:

The idea started when Randy Stenger was driving by a construction site and one of his three boys said, “Dad, wouldn’t it be fun to go play on those trucks?”  ...